How to run servicemanager in non android OS

[ya1gaurav]

In case of android, servicemanager run as separate service during boot. In case of non android OS, how to run service manager using libgbinder?

[monich]

If no one is running a service manager for you, you would have to do it yourself. Unit tests contain a few very primitive implementations of various servicemanager binder APIs, like this one for example. Those would give you a very rough idea how it could be done with libgbinder. It's not that hard, really, especially the early simple servicemanager APIs like the one called "aidl" in libgbinder.

Writing a real servicemanager (e.g. the one accessible via zero handle) would require a few changes in libgbinder, at least to provide an equivalent of ProcessState::becomeContextManager and keep an internal reference to the local servicemanager object (no more than one per binder device). AFAICT becoming the context manager is a one-way thing, i.e. there's no way to stop being the context manager.

I can imagine a function like gbinder_local_object_become_context_manager() being added to libgbinder API if that's really going to be useful to somebody.

[ya1gaurav]

If no one is running a service manager for you, you would have to do it yourself. Unit tests contain a few very primitive implementations of various servicemanager binder APIs, like this one for example. Those would give you a very rough idea how it could be done with libgbinder. It's not that hard, really, especially the early simple servicemanager APIs like the one called "aidl" in libgbinder.

Writing a real servicemanager (e.g. the one accessible via zero handle) would require a few changes in libgbinder, at least to provide an equivalent of ProcessState::becomeContextManager and keep an internal reference to the local servicemanager object (no more than one per binder device). AFAICT becoming the context manager is a one-way thing, i.e. there's no way to stop being the context manager.

I can imagine a function like gbinder_local_object_become_context_manager() being added to libgbinder API if that's really going to be useful to somebody.

This would be helpful. A service (systemd service daemon) could be created which will become context manager & the service could be launched on bootup.